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Work started Sunday to remove the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, four months after it was shot down, killing 298 passengers and crew. Dutch experts supervised a crew from the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic's emergency ministry as they began cutting pieces of debris with metal saws at the crash site near the village of Grabove, an AFP reporter said.
Investigators from the Netherlands heading the probe into what happened to July's doomed flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur said the work could take "several days".
"Today the recovery of wreckage from flight MH17 has started. The Dutch Safety Board commissioned the recovery and transportation to the Netherlands of the wreckage as part of the investigation into the cause of the crash of flight MH17," the Dutch experts said in a statement.
The investigation team added that the wreckage would be collected before being transported to the government-controlled city of Kharkiv and then flown to the Netherlands.
The Dutch experts eventually intend to reconstruct a section of the doomed airliner.
A rebel official said they hoped to finish the operations in the next 10 days and that work would start on the largest chunks of fuselage first.
Some 15 members from the rebel recovery crew used a crane to winch wreckage onto two trucks waiting nearby to shift the evidence from the scene. The team faces a race to complete the recovery effort before harsh winter conditions in the former Soviet state make it difficult to continue.
Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of supplying pro-Moscow rebels with the missile that shot down the Boeing 777. Russia and the separatists deny it, blaming Ukrainian forces instead.
A preliminary report by Dutch investigators published in September found the plane was hit by a large number of "high-energy objects", but did not apportion blame.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2014

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